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FREDERIG GILBERT, OF PARIS, FRANCE, 'AssIeNoE ro SOOIETE ANONYME DEs APPAREILS AUTOMATIQUES POUR AOOROOHER ET DEoEooHEE LEs WAGONS DE OHEMINS DE FER, OF SAME PLACE.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 285,25, dated September 18, 1883.

Application filed November 13, 1852. (No model.) Patented in France October 24, 1881, No. 145,487; in Belgium November 12, 1881; in England January 16, 1882, N0. 218; in Italy March 31, 1882; in Austria May 2, 1882, No. 10,985, and in Spain August 1, 1882,

To aZZ whom. it may concern.- I

Be it known that I, FE DEEIo GILBERT, a citizen of the Republic of France, and a resident of Paris, France, have invented certain Improvements in Car-Couplings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of certain impr0Vements in the construction of couplings for railroad-cars, my invention having more particular reference to improvements in the automatic coupling devices for the coupling and uncoupling of the cars without requiring the trainmen to enter between the cars, as more fully described hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view, partly in section, of my improved car-coupling. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same through the two draw heads on coupled cars. Fig. 3 is an end view of one of Fig. 4c is a plan view, partly in section, illustrating my improved drawhead coupled to an ordinary draw-bar, and

. Figs. 5 and 6 detached sectional views of the tightening devices.

M M are the transverse end beams of two adjoining cars, carrying the usual bumpers, A A, (only one on each car being shown in Fig. 1,) and the central draw-bars, D D, provided with the hooked ends D D, by which the cars may be coupled by means of the ordinary coupling device, D", Fig. 4. In connection with the draw-bar D, I apply a double draw-head, A, which is preferably secured to the transverse beam of the car by bolts a a and spiral springs a a. Each coupling-link B consists of two wrought-ironloops pivoted to each other by a central pin, 9, and formed at one end into an elongated slot for the reception of the vertical couplingpin H on one of the double draw-heads, and at the other end with a round opening for the reception of a pin, 0, which secures it permanently to the other draw-head. Each double draw-head is provided with coupling and securing pins 0 and H on opposite sides of the draw-hook D, and the side of the draw-head adjacent to the pin 0 is slotted, Figs. 1, 3, and 4, so that when the link B is not in use it may be swung round at right angles to a position out of the way, as indicated by dotted lines in Fi 1 and full lines in Fig. 4. Each coupling-pin H is carried by a pair of jointed levers, I J, mounted with a pin-andslot connection on a pair of arms, j, carried by the draw-head. Each of these levers is preferably formed with a hooked end, whereby it may be operated by hand or an instrument to raise the coupling-pin H to uncouple the cars. In connection with each pin- H, I mount within the draw-head a pivoted plate, 00, hav-- ing 011 the outside a weighted handle, 0;, so that whenthe said plate 00 is turned up to the position indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2 it will keep the coupling-pin H in a raised position ready for coupling, and the projecting link B in the draw-head of an approaching car will strike the plate and allow the pin H to drop and couple the cars. The draw-bar D may be connected with the drawhead simply by forming a shoulder on the bar to bear on the draw-head; or a stirrup, 71, in the latter, Fig. 1, may be passed-through a slot in the bar. For the purpose of tightening up the ordinary coupling, I may apply to the drawbar D the device shown at the lefthand side of Fig. 1. The bar is made in two parts,with the adjoining ends carrying screw buckles or nuts (I (2, into which screws the right and left handed screw-bolt p, having fixed to it a pinion, P. Into this pinion gear the teeth on a horizontal transverse rack-bar, K, the opposite end of which has teeth gearing into a pinion, P, on the side beam, N, of the car. By applying a hand-lever to the squared end of the axis 1) of this pinion P at the side of the car, the rack K may be caused tomove in or out, and, by turning the pinion P, lengthen or shorten the draw-bar, Fig. 1, and consequently tighten or slacken the coupling D Fig. 4.

I claim as my invention- 1. The coupling-link consisting of a pair of 0 wrought-iron loops swiveled to each other, In testimonywhereof I have signed inyname and each loop having openings at opposite to this specification in the presence of two subends for the coupling-pins, substantially as scribing Witnesses. described.

5 2. The combination of a draw-bar, I), hav- FREDERIO GILBERT.

ing am hooked end, D, with a double drawhead, through which the hooked end of the Vitnesses: bar passes, and which has at one side a coup- JOSEPH. DELAGE, 1ing-pin and at the other a pivoted link, sub- R0131. M. HOOPER.

1o stantially as set forth. 

